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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1887-08-19
For Sale.

At the Elko Livery Stable, one two.
horse buggy and double harness, almost
new, will be- sold at bargain. For
further particulars enquire Of
FRANK CoaswELL.
6-15.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1887-08-19

Bed Rock Saloon
UNDER MASONIC HALL.
H. Nc ADAMS, Proprietor.
This popular resort has recently been
placed in first class repair and
THE BAR
stocked with the finest Wines, Liquors
and Cigars.
Hyou want something Mild CT Pow
erful give the Bed Rock call.
81.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1887-08-19
BOOM

Will be upon you and you will realize
that every dollar spent in futhering a
local enterprise will return to you doub.
led, while every one you send away will
be gone forever. In looking around to
see where to spend those Dollars mest
advantageouely it will
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23

see this when we look upon the map of our
country and try to realize the extent Of the
host of Americans who live far away from
the coast with its tonic air and cooling
breezes; when we estimate how many States
are land bound, how rapidly the population
is multiplying in them and how eager the
majority who live there must be to see and
feel and revel in the sea that is to them SO
unfamiliar, romantic and invigorating. At
least half of population soon to number
lOO,OOO0O0 souls must get its salt air between
Maine and Florida.
Atlantic City, N. j., is the largest Amer
lean watering place, and one that never
rests. When billiards were sweeping the
whole country this winter and the Their
mometer was at or close to the treez.
ing point in all but the warmest Southern
States, Atlantic City was bustling with the
activity of forty hotels full of idlers. And
they were not cold, either. On cloudless days
they promenaded the great board walk and
in stormy weather they kept in doors,
warmed by cracking log fires and cheered
by lively music. rich eating and a round Of
indoor games and sports. The extraordi-
narily mild temperature here in winter is
accounted for by the fact that the Gulf
stream, which also warns Old Point Com
fort, turns inward much closer to the coast
at this point than anywhere else on our
Northern Atlantic frontier. The place is
therefore greatly favored by invalids
afflicted with pulmonary troubles as near
at-hand substitute for Florida.
The atmosphere is astonishingly dry at this
place. Every one who has visited other sea-
side resorts knows how prone ones hair is
to grow damp and straight at them, how the
ladies' complain that their frizzes won't stay
frizzed, how sticky the billiard cues and the
balustrades and chair arms are and how
wretchedly bad even the best cigars, care
fully selected at home, become in the moist
atmosphere. There is none of this to COM
plain of in Atlantic City. The atmosphere is
always as dry as the breath of furnace,
though delightfully."- cool and breezy in the
summer and mild and grateful in the winter.
This popularity also recommends the place
to invalids and they go there in sufficient
numbers in winter to give the place languid,
quiet and almost invalid air.
Atlantic City is on an island or broken
reef of sand, forty miles above Cape May and
eighty-fve miles southeast of Philadelphia.
It was planned and laid out before it was
built so that its streets are arranged as mathe-
matically as the squares of a checker-board.
y few years ago it was the abode of a light
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
A SUMMER INDUSTRY.
Chicago Women Making Toboggan Cal
for Next Winters Trade.

Chicago Women Making Toboggan Cap.
for Next Winters Trade.
That makes over 300" said the manager
of knit-goods mandatory, as young
woman with bundle in her hands closed
the door behind her. II advertised for
women to do crochet work at their homes
and I've fairly been besieged with applicants
ever since"
why is there a special demand for GRO
Chef work at this season of the year,
"Toboggan caps was the laconic reply.
you see. we're getting ready for next Win
ters trade and as there seem to be no sig ns
Of the toboggan craze dying out, we want to
lay in good stock of material to fill the
demands of the jobbers. This crochet work
is an excellent thing, by the way, and there's
many a family in Chicago which is entirely
supported by it. 1t doesn't require much
skill and woman with any aptitude tor
that kind Of work can easily crochet ten caps
in the course of the day. We pay ten cents
a cap, so you see woman can make nice
little income out of the work. Strange to
say, however, most Of our applicants are
married women, who are supported IN
comfortable style by their husbands.
They have everything they want except
pin money, and they take this means
of getting it. After all, it's a sort OF
amusement for them, too. After their
household duties are over, and they ind
their time hanging heavily on their hands,
they can take out cap and work on 1t.
Why said woman to me this morning,
L think this is just splendid scheme. L
dent care if don't make more than 81
week it will keep me in ice cream: Some
firms require the crocheters to make de-
pcsit before they take the work home, but
we never do I've been in the business over
ten years. and I've never known the firm to
lose an ounce of material No, the people
who do this kind of work are honest"
At this point buxom young matron
entered the managers office leading a little
girl by the hand. "Oh, Mr.. -" she ex-
claimed, II want material forsix dozen caps:
We've started a society on the west side, and
we're going to have a Gaping bee every day
It's Just too delightful for anything, and m
going to make ever SO much pin money this
summer"
That's Just the way it goes" said the
manager, after the applicant for the material
had departed Now, l know that woman
Her husband is head clerk in big store down
town, and gets a salary of 81, SOOa year. She
has no need of money; it's only freak IN
which she has induced some of her friends to
participate. They'll soon tire of 1t, though,
and then some one more in need OF the
money will receive the benefit. "-Chicago
Mans
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23

island itself was level and easy to turn into
streets and house-sites, so that 1t IS no Wonder
that the sutfocating multitudes OF the quaker
CITY rushed to it in armies daily, Just as tne
people of New York do to COney Island. lts
building plots sold readily and to-day 1t ma, mas
a permanent population spf something IKE
10000 souls, and its houses face one announcer
on twenty-four side streets and three great
transverse avenues. one of which is mlnla-
ture Broadway of shops, hotels and depots'
with myriad of buses and line OF morse
cars affording transportation up ana down IL.
1t is question whether even New 1o[h
CITY boasts as many hotels as THIS NIUE
wooden city. Certainly no city except tne
metropolis can vie with it in this respect.
Its hotels number almost 400. lhey are
scattered all over the town in couples, haiI
dozens and singly, and they offer board anu
lodging at rates to suit all but the lndigeht'
at say, from SIS week to 81 per day Ihere
are no monster hOstelries, not one is pullt Oh
brick and ninetv-nine in each hundred are
simply cottages bearing hotel names ana
maintained as clearinghouse: But, IKE
the city and the people, they all look cream
and wholesome 1t is a remarkable TACT
about this, the largest of the seaside settle
ments. that though it may be cheap, 1t IS not
slovenly or dirty in any of its features. IL
is clean, prim, tidy, sweet smelling: or
derly place That is probably why one nnds
the extremes of fashions and OF simplicity,
of wealth and OF the next thing to poverty,
meeting there as they do nowhere else on the
coast. A week ago the Astors, Of New Iork
and the Blddles, of Philadelphia, and IN tact
the richest and most exclusive folks from
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
CARRYING THE CREEL.
One of the Extinct Marriage Customs of
North Britain.

Early in the day after the marriage those
interested in the proceedings assembled at the
house of the newly -wedded couple, bringing
with them ''creel' or basket, which they
filed with stones. The young husband, on be-
ing brought to the door, had the creel firmly
fixed on his back, and with it in this posi-
ton had to run the round of the town, or at
least the chief portion of it, followed by
number OF men to see that he Gid not drop
his burden the only condition on which he
was allowed to do so being that his wife
should come after him and kiss him. As re-
lief depended altogether on his wife. it would
sometimes happen that the husband dld not
need to run more than few yards, but when
she was more than ordinarily bashtul. or
wished to have little sport at the expense
of her lord and master-which it may be
supposed would not untrequently be the case
he had to carry his load a considerable dis
'tance.
The custom was very strictly enforced, and
the person who was last creeled had charge
of the ceremony, and he was naturally anx-
ious that no one should escape. The prac-
tice, as far as Galashels was concerned
came to an end about 100 years ago, with the
person of one Robert Young, who, on the
ostensible plea Of a ''sore back" lay abed all
the day after his marriage and obstinately
refused to get up and be creeled. He mad, 1t
NAV be added in extenuatiOn, been twice
married before, and had on each occasion
gone through the ceremony of being creeled,
and no doubt felt that he had had quite
enough of creeing-AN the Year Round.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
ATLANTIC CITY.
FEATURES OF THE LARGEST OF
AMERICAN wATERING-PLACE
A Hospitality that is Extended to the
Public the Year Round-The Winter
Sanitarium of InvaIids as Well as the
Summer Resort of Pleasure-Seekers.


Watering-place life grows apace in this
country. The old-time prophecy that the
New Jersey coast would some day present
the aspect of continuous chain of summer
resorts is already nearly fulfilled, for almost
wherever there is no actual summer settle
ment one has been planned for the future.
Now it looks as though it is almost safe to
pred.c that the greater part of the entire
coast will be put into service for the delecta'
ton of vacation idlers; certainly the work
is going bravely on, from the rugged and
tattered coast of Maine to the level sand
ribbon that skirts the waters edge in Florida.
The reason for this is so logical that it seems
as though the trouble in future will be to
find places for all who will seek them rather
than to find patrons to maintain them. We
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23

dozen cities were there Yet in cheaper no,
tells We're the families of poor clerks and
workmen. You will not find that state 81
affairs duplicated anywhere else on the coast,
Between ourselves, suspect the fashionable
folk will soon own the major part OF the
island and the poorer ones will gradually sell
surrender and move away-but that's look
ing far ahead
The board walk and the stately and beau
tiful government lighthouse at the end OF 1t
make SO deepan impression upon all who see
Atlantic City that they carry the picture III
their minds to all corners Of the earth and
all the days of their lives. 1t is a mine and
a mint to the place, for the news of the pleas
ure it gives is scattered by all who visit the
city The walk skirts the inner edge OF the
beach and inclOses the streets and
houses. 1t is raised on short piles and
is filled with side rails wherever they
are needed. Its character Is con-
stantly changing. Now it dives between
long rows of shops and Photograph galleries,
theatres, museums and restaurants !;
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
She RECOGNIZED the Symptoms.

"Mary," he murmured fondly, did you
ever feel restless futtering of the heart
because some one was absent; sort Of
vacant longing which needed the dear pres
ence of some loved personality to dispel it?'
II have, Augustus, Ihave."
''Did you ever feel as if the absence of
some one individual from this earth would
make it uninhabitable to you-would leave
it a void through which you must wander
aimlessly and alone?"
"Why, yes, Augustus. | felt just that way
when some cruel, wicked person went and
stole my darling little pug"
And Augustus gave it up in despair
Merchant Traveller
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
The Rival Inter-oceanic Canals.

The Nicaragua Canal Company is making
its preparations to begin work when the in
evitable collapse of the Panama Canal Com
pany comes. 1t has just made its first pay
ment of 100000 to the Nicaragua republic
for the concession, the terms of which leave
it two and one-half years to complete its sur
veys and year after in which to begin the
work of construction. AS this canal route is
far less costly than that over the isthmus Of
Panama and will take shorter time to build,
and the capital available for great enterprises
of the kind steadily increases, its outlook for
success ought not to be diminished by the
apparent failure of the other enterprise
Neau York Times
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
A New Fashion in New York.

One of the prettiest women in New York
has fashion that no one else has thought to
adopt. She wears tiny black lace hat and
adorns it each day with bunch of real and
expensive flowers, with corsage bouquet to
were pinned real orchids, and her corsage
was similarly decorated. All the past month
she has been seen every day driving in the
park, wearing large black straw hat
trimmed with huge punches of Jack roses,
fresh each day from her own green-house.-
Correspondence Boston Record.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
The Old Proverbs Can be Misleading

Don't say nowthin' to me bouta bro IN
the hand bein' with two in the BUSH SAID
tramp the other day, cause it amt sol We
tried an 1 knows. 1 took a bird out OF er
bush ther other nght-it were fine brown
Leghorn bird an it were something Nv hlsh
bush-an' hadn't NOR II got it nlcely III nay
hand force man .blazed way with adouple-
barreled shotgun an filled my les 50 illL
1t 'u'd bin a blame sight better fer me ef
ther'd bin NOR a hun red birds in that air
bush than jes the neck O one in my hanI-
with shot a-crackin' inter my legs -Dd'
kotd BeW
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23

next it fees from the houses that press
against it's sides and seems to seek tree
dom and air with nothing but the sand
and the sea and sky anywhere around it.
Anon, it leads you to the fronts of stylish
hotels where you see the indolent and idle,
ing on the porches, Again it plunges into
thick section of noisy mirth-seekers, where
bands are playing, merry-go-rounds are
laden with flying troops Of merry little
ones, dancers are whirling in one anothers
arms and rife galleries, drinking booths
and side shows attract noisy crowds.
Still further along this yielding, level,
free beach pavilions (another feature pecu-
liar to the place., where, at no cost, you and
your friends may sit as long as you please
and watch the pillows, the bathers, the sea
and the distant ships that hug the gray hori-
zon. Finally, at either end of the walk you
leave the town behind you and stroll in open
country, with wholesome bracing air to
BREATHE grand marine scenery for the eye to
feast upon, and solitude to calm and rest you.
Thus the board walk tempts nearly every
body. Bridal couples and those who are
planning to assume that state spend most of
their wakeful time on this panoramic prone
made. Invalids find comfort in walking
there. The young and thOughtless find
plenty of excitement in the busy sections of
it. Those who dress for display air their
c, stumes there, and SO it becomes little
world of itself when the crowds are at the
beach.
Dathng is of course the principal diver
sion on this beach There are immense a nd
well managed lighthouses there where the
conventional old-fashioned suits of blue
flannel are rented out for twenty-five cents
Loud and snowy robes are seldom seen
there and the bathing customs are as modest
and proper as they ever are which is to say
that there is the usual boisterousness and
romping among those who cannot restrain
the sense of liberty that comes with freen.
ones self from ones street attire However,
on the beach and everywhere else in At
lantic City there is little annoyance from fast
or disorcltrly characters. 1t is the resort OF
quiet plain people as Il rule.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
InnIeasantly Suggestive.

Jay Gould has just had car built by the
Pullman company, and the first that he has
ever possessed. This entities him to rank
with other railroad magnates, and from the
description, it is suggestive Of the addition in
thu near future of receiver to some Of the
roads in which he is ckholder.-Detroh
Pyee Press
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
The (|pRml1
4 PRONOUNCED DEPARTURE IN
POPULAR LITERATURE.
The Principle of the Very Lowest
Margin Above Actual Cost Put
Into Practical Operation.
Believing that if the productions Of the first
LITERARY AND ARTISTIC

Talent are placed within the reach of all, there
will be most appreciative response, the pub
fishers of THE ORBIT have perfected arrange
ments for issuing the largest and unqueStion-
ably the finest monthly for the money eyer
offered. The current number will be really il
time, and thereafter regularly each month
THE ORBIT will We delivered, postage paid. t.
any portion of the United States at the TT
markably low price of
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23

dust cloak, both of them designed by first
class ladies' tailors.
The costume is of fine striped light gray
summer cloth, made wholly of the one ma
terial without any trimming other than a
velvet collar and cuffs depending simply on
the elegance of its draping and perfection of
fit for its style. The draperies are long, reach
ing to the hem of the lower skirt and COM
pleteIy covering it, disposed gracefully across
the front, laid in deep pleats at the sides and
very full at the back.
The hat is of gray straw, trimmed with
dark blue velvet and blue forget-me-nots.
The dust cloak is of fawn-colored CLOTH
the four sapes trimmed with wide, fiat braid
in a light shade of brown. The Tyrolean hat
is of straw, bound and banded with brown
corded silk in very plain, rather mannish,
style. Any other neat, pretty chapeau may
be substituted for this one, if preferred.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
Why She is Superstitious.

The only foundation for the current report
that Mrs. Cleveland is strongly superstitious
seems to be the fact that she likes to find a
four-leaf clover and doesn't like to start on a
Journey on Friday morning if it looks like
bad weather.-Nep York Sun
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23

house keeper and few fishermen and the
res ort of duck-hunters A railroad company
b"'ight it of the natives who owned it and
ha! ing laid their rails out to it began to adj
vertise it as water-resort. It's beach was, as
IT still is, the finest possessed by any resort in
allerica--a broad, level, hard table of sand,
-sluisitely adapted to carriage riding and
'...nting so slightly that bather may walk
,.arter of mile into the water without
s+:.ching depth that would drown him. The
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23

oOutH Jun are always
very wise. A girl was tried at the Riverside
Circuit Court for administering poison to
the family which she served. The first YER
diet returned was Murder" 'Impossible;n
said the Judge, mo one has been killed.
The jurv went back and returned a verdict
of Suicide "But the girl is still aliven'
expostulated the Judge On this the jury
gave it up, and returned verdict Of mot
gt1iIty ',-Natdl Times.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23

may or may not have train. as the wearer
pleases. Many have Vatican pleat in the
back, style always graceful and generally
becoming.
In the gown illustrated, one of the more
elaborate styles is seen, as there are degrees
of elegance in these loose dresses; for while
some are merely negliges for use in ones
own room, others are made elegant enough
to receive ones friends in from breakfast
until dinner. In this instance the gown
proper is of moss-green surah, with an in
serted front and finely pleated skirt portion
of India silk in green of a pale tint. The
finish to the twisted green silk cord about
the waist consists of tassels of green crystal,
and the grelots on the edge of the jacket
fronts and sleeves are also of green crystal.
At this season, when so many are
preparing for trip away, travelling dresses
and c1oaks are subject Of much interest.
In the accompanying sketches will be seen
excellent models for a travelling gown and a
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23

aid in folds, the lower part braided to match
the panels.
The hat is of fine gray straw, faced with
blue velvet and trimmed very high with fol
of silk and an aigrette of white feathers.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
DAINTY DRESSES.
HANDSOME COSTUMES FOR WEAR
IN THE HOUSE.
Soft Silks in Light That's the Favorites for
Teasowns in a Lady's Wardrobe-Iravei-
ing Suits and Dust ci"aks OF Elegant
pattern-Neat Hats of Gray Straw.

Among the most dainty dresses OF my
ladv's wardrobe are the teagowns or mouse
dresses. Soft silks in light tlnts printed wlth
designs in Pompadour colors, challis, ven-
;rrs str;ned flannels in light qualities, cam
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
ORIGINAL STORIES

By GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND, ERNEST LIE
LANCBY PIERsoS. &EN'L J. MADISON DRAKE
Miss JENNIE 5. JUDsON, Mrs NJ. II GATHER
WOOD, HENRY J. FORD, while arrangements
are being perfected with novelists or "'oe
reputation for serials of very high class
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
SAMPLE COPIES WILL BE SENT

To any part of the country upon rep Iap Tor
%arded by yi postal note money order or IN s,
of single subscription 80 cents may De sen cI,r
subscribers risk i'll postage stamp, u" 10 al
dressed o>,r,,D G. 90
Baltimore. Md
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23

brics and satteens are
the m ate ri a Is of
which they are fash
ionably made, with
the addition of deep
bouncing lace and
many ribbon bows.
The shape is usually
a loose robe cut IN
one from the neck
to the hem, fitting
the figure in the
back, with d e ep
pleats laid below the
waist to give extra
fullness to the skirt,
and having a loose,
full front fallin g
down straight. 1t is
for this inserted
front that the hounc-
ing lace is used, or
mayhap crepe de
chine, India silk, or
other soft, fine fab
rio Such Garments
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
so A GENTS 1<xn.

AS to the reliability of the publishers. ami
their undoubted responsibility in carrying OUT
their contracts with subscribers, reference IS
made to Hon. Frank Brown, Postmaster Of
Baltimore. who may be communicated with by
any local postmaster. or written to direct by
those who desire so to do.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
A FAMOUS BALL.
MAGNIFICENCE SURPRISING ANY
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The Masquerade Ball of the French Am.
bassadOr at Rome in l15I-A Blaze o
Diamonds and Precious Stones The Coz
geous Dresses of the Ladies'.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23

Are to be made special feature, ana ini'
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If such publication, worthy in every way
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